What to do if a video keeps buffering?

How to stop buffering

1. Close other applications and programs.
2. Pause the stream for a few moments.
3. Reduce video quality.
4. Speed up your internet connection.
5. Remove other devices connected to your network.
6. Update graphics card drivers.
7. Try a wired Ethernet connection.
8. Clean up your browser settings.

How do I stop videos from automatically playing on my phone?

Using the Android app

1. Click the menu button at the top right of your screen.
2. Once you’re there, scroll down and tap “Settings & Privacy,” then “Settings.”
3. Scroll down until you find “Media and Contacts” and tap on it.
4. Tap on “Autoplay” and set it to “Never Autoplay Videos.”

How to prevent CNN.com from auto playing videos?

This will make it such that when you open a CNN article, you have to click the video to run Flash player, which effectively keeps it from auto-playing. Edit: Dropped the “www” from the exception as putting just “cnn.com” will also block video on adjacent cnn websites like money.cnn.com.

How to play JavaScript video when scrolled to stack?

Let’s say our browser window W currently scrolled to y-position scrollTop and scrollBottom Our video will NOT be played when its position is at V1 or V2 as below snapshot. You can use window.pageXOffset and window.pageYOffset to check how far your browser window is scrolled both vertically and horizontally.

How can I Stop Flash player from playing on CNN?

Settings → Show Advanced Settings → Content settings… → Plug-ins → Manage exceptions… and make the behavior “Ask” (or “Block” in recent builds). This will make it such that when you open a CNN article, you have to click the video to run Flash player, which effectively keeps it from auto-playing.

How to check how far your browser is scrolled?

You can use window.pageXOffset and window.pageYOffset to check how far your browser window is scrolled both vertically and horizontally. Use these with window.innerWidth and innerHeight and some basic geometry math to calculate how much your visible page overlaps with the video itself.